Concrete Walls is pleased to announce &ldquo\;Gentlemen Take
Polaroids &amp\; Play Video Games&rdquo\;\, a two-person exhibition featur
ing photography and video by Derric Eady and Steve Childs. In the year 1980
\, Edwin Land inventor of the Polaroid Camera retired\, Atari posted over 2
billion dollars in profit\, and post punk band &ldquo\;Japan&rdquo\; relea
sed their fourth hit record. Two artists spawned by the 80&rsquo\;s\, artis
ts Derric Eady and Steve Childs explore their unique visions of photography
and video this Summer at Concrete Walls. Derric Eady will have on display
digital prints\, and a computer generating real time video via video game e
ngines and 3D modeling programs. Eady&rsquo\;s work influenced by today&rsq
uo\;s gaming cult culture mines the vast and rich territory of virtual envi
ronments and their transitory nature. The work is a meditation on detachmen
t\, spiritual transformation\, and the search for transcendent beauty. Stev
e Childs&rsquo\;s digital prints of mundane objects are mysterious\, yieldi
ng the power of light and abstracting the literal. Through the use of decad
e old Polaroid processes Childs is able to create visual eye candy by mysti
fying images of objects in his daily life. Using a deemed technologically o
utdated mode of photography and images of the everyday\, Childs presents a
mystery that can only be interpreted though the imagination of the viewer.
Derric Eady received his MFA from the University of California\, Irvine in
2005 and BFA in both Photo / New Media &amp\; Art History in 2002 from Kans
as City Art Institute. He has shown at Lowe Gallery in Los Angeles\, The Ar
mory Center of the Arts in Pasadena and the Office in Huntington Beach\, CA
. Steve Childs lives and works in Los Angeles and has shown his work at I-5
Gallery\, Compact/Space\, and the Huntington Beach Museum of Art. He recei
ved his MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2005 and his BFA from Bio
la University in 1998.